HENRY ROOD PRESENTS VALUABLE AUTOGRAPH LETTERS

Henry Rood, writer of editorials and special articles on national and international subjects for the New York Sun, Tribune and Times, and formerly of the New York Herald staff, spoke in Hanover January 10 and 11. "Personal Recollections of William Dean Howells," "Mark Twain," and "The Opportunities for a Literary Career," were Mr. Rood's subjects.

In addition to his work for New York newspapers, Mr. Rood is a well-known contributor to The Century, Harper's, The Forum,The North American Review, Collier's and The Saturday Evening Post. He was at one time associated with Richard Henry Stoddard in work of literary criticism, and was from 1900 to 1910 a member of the editorial staff of Harper's. At the invitation of the Royal Italian Government, Mr. Rood served as director of the Italian Bureau of Information at New York during the critical period of international affairs following the signing of the armistice.

Mr. Rood has presented to the Dartmouth Outing Club pictures of Peary and Steffanson, a letter by Peary just before he made his. successful trip to the North Pole, and the first letter written by Steffanson after his discovery of the blonde esquimaux. The latter has been given to the College Library as a valuable historical document. To the Arts, Mr. Rood presented letters by William Dean Howells and Henry Mills Alden, an original manuscript by Alden and an autographed poem by Edmund Clarence Stedman. Autographed letters of Theodore Roosevelt were presented by Mr. Rood to the Tuck School, and to Pi Delta Epsilon, the 'journalistic fraternity of the College, to which Mr. Rood was elected an honorary member.